What your peers are doing to get better at their jobs
As strategy and innovation execs, ex-consultants, and business leaders, we’re supposed to have all the answers.
Or at least the sources to tap or frameworks to leverage to get them.
But the refrain we’re hearing again and again lately?
“I wish it was easier for me to know how to be better at my work.”
Whether:
• new technologies and platforms,
• helpful mental models and thought exercises,
• or just the latest cross-industry inspiration and case studies,
…there’s always more we can be adding to our toolboxes to level up our thinking and impact.
Here are some of the most underrated but most-celebrated resources that data shows strategy and innovation leaders are eating up:
PODCASTS
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Cold Call (HBR)
Forward Thinking (McKinsey)
The CX Cast (Forrester)
The McKinsey Podcast (McKinsey)
Think Fast, Talk Smart: Communication Techniques (Stanford GSB)
Thinkers & Ideas (BCG Henderson)
NEWSLETTERS
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• Better Humans
• Better Marketing
• Chartr
• Collab Fund (by Morgan Housel)
• Entrepreneur’s Handbook
• Farnam Street
• Forge
• Hidden Path
• Industry Dive
• Leadership First
• Lenny’s Newsletter
• Level Up Coding
• Medium’s Business Publication
• Mind Cafe
• Mission.org
• Money Stuff
• Not Boring
• Personal Growth
• Product Coalition
• Strategion
• Strategy+Business
• The Good Men Project
• The Writing Cooperative
• UX Collective
• Honorable mention: subreddits like r/strategy, r/consulting, and r/MarketResearch are a treasure trove of insight, productive dialogue, and helpful resources
THOUGHT LEADERS
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Stay hungry, stay curious, and you’ll stay irreplaceable 💪!
Victoria
PS. Curious what top thought leaders in your industry are saying, predicting, and doing about you, your competitors, and/or the industry? Kick off a quick roundup.